Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-10-26
BADGER NEWS.

THE Milwaukee Exposition was a
financial success.
FRANK NovoTNY is wanted at La
Crosse for securing $40 from a board
ing mouse where he also failed to set
tie his bills and for neglecting to re-
turn $500 that had been entrusted
to him by a young lady.
HENRY and Fritz Halle, of Eau
Claire, are said to have run away
with $500 belonging to their father.
FRANK VoLLEY has been arrested at
Chippewa Falls for bigamy.
The Eau Claire police arrested $50
persons during the past year.
IHE potato market is quite brisk.
In Milwaukee buyers meet the farmers
In the outskirts and purchase all that
are not being delivered on contract at
from $1.lO to $1.25 a bag.
ADOLPH PAGE died at MilN aukee on
the 21sU from wounds received in g.
quarrel with his father-in-law, Theo-
dore Joetfers, the previous day.
The failure of Charnley & Lovdall
in Chicago has been the cause of the
appointment of q receiver for A.
w. Lawrence & Co., of Sturgeon Bay
The store has been closed and all in
ventOry of stock is now being taken.
The amount of their liabilities or as
sets cannot be ascertained. The mill
OF the Sturgeon Bay Lumber Com
pany is still running, but is in charge
OF an assignee. 1t is thought tDat
Lawrence q Go. will come out all
right.
CERTAIN railway contractors in the
vicinity of Ashland are charged With
swindling employees by means of
worthless store orders in lieu of paw
ALBERT GROSS, Il Milwaukee man, is
under arrest at Ashland, charged with
robbing railway workmen.
IT is said the marriage of Miss Clara
Foster and Edward Foss, at Fair.
child, which was said to have been in
tended as a joke that ended seriously,
was not O. legal marriage, as certain
formalities necessary were not gone
through with. The affair was en-
larged upon by sensational CORE
spondents.
CLARK BROWN, of Blue River, Grant
Y
railroad track with his head and body
terribly bruised. He was unconscious
when found and died in short time
afoer being taken to his home near by.
1t is supposed that he jumped from
the train the evening previous while
returning from Boscobel.
JOHN S. OWEN, of Eau Claire, has
purchased from Grand Rapids, Mich,
men and from FL. w. Early, of Chip
pewa Falls, their pine lands in Doug
las and Bayfield, Counties. The con
sideration in the two deals was $275,-
600.
GROUND has been broken for water
works at Hayward.
REUL WESTON, an old and we'll
known citizen OF La Crosse, is dead
SIT the age OF 85 years.
A SNEAK-THIEF stole several hundred
dollars worth of jewelry from the resi-,
dence Of Mrs. Timothy Brown, Madi.
son.
PHILLIP LACKEY discovered q fine
vein OF lead ore while digging a cistern
in Northeast New Diggings, Lafayette
County.
M. M. DORM, q pioneer of Madison,
is dead at the age OF 50 years. Mr.
Dorm owned a livery stable at Madi
son over thirty years.
ASHLAND is gossiping about the re-.
ported marriage OF Edgar l.. Richter,
son OF Rev Louis Richter, pastor OF
St. Paul Presbyterian Church, to
Marie Gentry, an Indian maiden.
Richter is q telegraph operator en-
ployed on the Wisconsin Central Line.
AT a meeting of the Chippewa Falls
& Ashland Railroad it was decided to
put on q party of surveyors at once
and finish the survey for the new line.
A resolution was passed to the effect
that the line should be extended south
from Chippewa Falls, through Eau
Claire Trempealeau, and Buffalo
Counties to a point opposite Winona.
The body Of DR.. E. A. Marden, who
disappeared from his home in Milwau-
kee several weeks ago, has been found
in the lake at the head OF Martin
Street. The Jury returned verdict
of accidental death.
JAMES CLARK, q riverman, is under
OIL CSU ou LII OIOsS0, CudIR0O Will SGU-
ting fire to sdisreputable house owned
oy one Moll keenan,.
THE Miners Cooperative Mercantile
Association of Ashland has been in
corpOrated with a capital of SIS, 900.
EAU CLAIRE votes to issue bonds in
the sum Of $25, 900 for bridge pur.
poses.
IDA GIRAcEK, II years old, is under
arrest at La Crosse, charged with
burglary.
Mr. AND MRS. JOSEPH BYRNE, alias
Howard, who several weeks ago
swindled q number of Milwaukee
ladies by selling them dress patterns
which they afterwards took to make
up and never returned, have been
locked up IN Chicago.
A PECULIAR hog disease Is prevalent
In Iowa County. 1t first causes q
lameness In the front feet, the whole
body becomes partially paralyzed,
the entire system gives out, the legs
refuse to support the body, and
finally death ensues. The disease
first developed in the herd OF Alexan-
der McCutchin of Arena who lost